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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men jump out of the ambulance when it arrives?

2. What does Sarun start doing after breakfast?

3. In what year did the author travel to Thailand?

4. What did the ruler who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old look like?

5. What is the something special that Sarun told Nea he had brought back?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two important events happened in Southeast Asia in 1975?

2. Give a short description of the happier days Dara remembered when she was two or three?

3. What does Jantu make?

4. What do Sarun and his family do after their first breakfast in the camp?

5. What does Jantu make for Dara that makes her feel better after Chnay destroys a pair of dolls Jantu made?

6. What are of the stories Jantu tells to Dara?

7. Cambodia's history dated back how many years to the building of what?

8. How are mangoes important in Jantu's and Dara's lives?

9. Where do Jantu and Dara build a shelter and what do they do there?

10. Who is hurt during the bombing of the trucks and what is done about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe the discussion Dara , Sarun and Nea had about the special pass Dara had to have to go to the hospital to get Jantu and Baby. What did Sarun say was preventing him from getting the pass right away?

What was going to take place that also prevented him from going?

2. When Dara said they should go and get Jantu the next day, what did Sarun reply? What were his excuses not to go right away?

3. Instead of planting rice what are Sarun's concerns and interests now?

4. Choose two of the above to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. What was the story of "Khong the Brave" ? Tell the story.

2. What is the story of the famiy of deaf men that Jantu told to Dara? How does it relate to the war in Cambodia?

3. What did Jantu make with her hands? What materials did she use?

4. Choose two of the above topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1. Give a short description of Cambodia's history. How far back did it go at the time the book was written? What other countries were involved with Cambodia? How were they involved?

2. How were the Cambodian people treated under the Khmer Rouge regime? Give some examples.

3. Why did Minfong Ho travel to the Thai-Cambodian refugee camp? Where had she been working? What did she end up doing in Thailand?

4. Write on two of the above topics.

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